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• Site security guard froze to death on Scottish windfarm job

  17-11-2021 23:50
  
  Contractor Farrans and a security specialist have been fined a total of £868,800 after a site guard froze to death on a remote windfarm job in Ayrshire.
  Ayr Sheriff Court heard that just after midnight on 22 January 2018, Ronald (Ronnie) Alexander, a 74-year-old security guard employed by Corporate Service Management Limited, was found by Police Scotland’s Mountain Rescue Team at Afton Windfarm, near New Cumnock.
  He was found lying face down and hypothermic, in deep snow and died lat
  
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• Henry Boot starts on £80m York Cocoa Works site

  17-11-2021 11:24
  
  Henry Boot Construction has started work on The Cocoa Works site in York after being appointed main contractor for the £80m scheme by Clarion Housing Group’s development arm Latimer.
  The scheme to transform the former Rowntree factory on Haxby Road in the centre of the city will deliver 279 apartments, of which 84 will be available for shared ownership.
  The historic site was home to the Rowntree factory from 1890 and had over 6,000 employees by the 1920s, producing world-famous confe
  
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• Henry Boot starts on £47m York Cocoa Works site

  17-11-2021 11:24
  
  Henry Boot Construction has started work on The Cocoa Works site in York after being appointed main contractor for the £47m scheme by Clarion Housing Group’s development arm Latimer.
  The scheme to transform the former Rowntree factory on Haxby Road near the centre of the city will deliver 279 apartments, of which 84 will be available for shared ownership.
  The historic site was home to the Rowntree factory from 1890 and had over 6,000 employees by the 1920s, producing world-famous con
  
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• Kier wins £34m Sunderland eye infirmary

  17-11-2021 08:58
  
  Kier has firmly in its sights the job to build a £34m eye hospital on Sunderland’s riverside.
  The firm has just been announced as preferred contractor to design and build a new eye hospital on the Vaux West site and could now start construction in the spring.
  South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust and Sunderland City Council want to replace the existing 75-year-old centre with a new four-storey hospital, which has been designed by north east architects Ryder, with Turner
  
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• Plans in for next 1,600-home phase of East London estate

  17-11-2021 08:36
  
  Malaysian developer EcoWorld London and housing association Poplar HARCA have submitted revised plans for the next phase of 20-year long Aberfeldy estate redevelopment in East London.
  The next phase of the Tower Hamlets scheme, Aberfeldy West, will see 1,600 homes built, alongside up to 25,500 sq ft of new retail space and up to 29,100 sq ft of new offices.The developers are seeking detailed permission for Phase A and outline permission for the rest of the masterplan site in Poplar.
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• Contractor loses appeal over aggregates that “turned to slurry”

  17-11-2021 08:14
  
  Contractor Readie Construction has lost an appeal after it was ordered to pay a supplier more than £220,000 for aggregates which “turned to slurry” after heavy rain on a warehouse building job.
  Geo Quarries Ltd supplied aggregates in 2018 to help build a sub–base between the ground–bearing slab of a new warehouse in Wootton, Bedfordshire and associated hard standings that Readie was constructing.
  Readie claimed the materials were defective after heavy overnight rain
  
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• Green light for 24-storey London city office tower

  17-11-2021 08:06
  
  Property developer Brockton Everlast got the planning thumbs up for its ‘greened’ 24-storey office building in London’s Square Mile.
  The developer says the 720,000 sq ft project, which has been designed by architect AHMM to deliver exemplary green credentials, will involve a total investment of over £320m.
  Demolition of the existing building and archaeological investigation will take around a year, with construction then expected to take three and a half years, employing
  
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• NW building firm boss sells employee ownership

  17-11-2021 08:05
  
  Greater Manchester-based building contractor J Greenwood (Builders) is marking its 50th anniversary by becoming employee-owned.
  Chairman John Greenwood, aged 59, has sold his shares in the £10m revenue builder allowing its 50-strong workforce to share in the success of the business and benefited from future profits.
  Established in 1971, the Chadderton-based contractor specialises in affordable housing, education, extra care, leisure, health, commercial and public building contracts fo
  
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